The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

XVIII.
ACCOUNT OF COINS OF HENRY III. FOUND AT
NEWARK IN JTNE, 1881.
8, AUTHUR STREET, NOTTINGHAM, 27th June, 1881.
DEAR SIR, I have much pleasure in reporting to you
a small find of coins at Newark made in this county on
the 7th day of June last, upon the premises
of Messrs.
Caparn, Hankey & Co., the eminent brewers. Through
the kindness of these gentlemen I have been enabled to
examine a dozen of the pieces, particulars of which are
annexed. The jar or urn under which they were found
(for it was upside down) is quite perfect, as will be seen in
woodcut above. It is of light red, somewhat gritty ware,
turned on a wheel. On the outside are one or two acci-
dental patches of a bottle-green glaze. The coins were as
usual very much oxidized and corroded, but have cleaned
very well, and are, with perhaps one exception, of the
London and Canterbury mints, long-cross pennies struck
in the reign of Henry III. They are of the same class
and types as the hoard of coins found on Tower Hill and
reported upon by you to the Numismatic Society in 1869.